Amazon And Its Discontents

Amazon is one of the great disruptive companies of the late 20th/early 21st century. Lots of technically savvy people in the early 1990s were wandering around thinking “The Internet is going to be huge, but how do you make money off it?” when Amazon (and eBay) went “Behold!” From selling books, then CDs, then everything, then locking in their customer base with not only a ginormous selection, but next day and/or free delivery, they not only out Walmarted Walmart, but also almost accidentally created the cloud computing boom with AWS, which for many years was their highest profit margin division.

But success is not without its discontents. Their search function has sucked forever, and sometimes it’s easier to find items via Google or DuckDuckGo. There’s tons of crap from China (tools and electronics) and India (soft goods) of uncertain quality.

And then there’s the problems covered in this video:

Today I got an email from Amazon (I bet many of you did too), stating “Try secure pickup when you order electronics.”

Reading between the lines, what I’m understanding here is that crime has gotten so bad in some areas (namely one-party Democrat-run locals with George Soros-baked DAs) that Amazon package theft is actually impacting their profitability. Remember all those train theft boxes scattered along California tracks?

Amazon is a modern wonder, but it relies on an affluent, law-abiding, high trust society to work properly. If law and order break down because thieves pay no price for stealing packages off your front porch, how does Amazon function? If no one charges and imprisons even the most brazen criminals, and (as in San Francisco and other Soros-DA infected locales) lawful violence to prevent theft is punished worse than theft, how long before those same thugs start prying and cutting open those new Amazon strong boxes?

Criminal disorder damages society at multiple levels, and under the Democratic Party’s current ideological direction, things are only going to get worse.

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4 Responses to “Amazon And Its Discontents”

  1. Mother Jugs & Speed says:

    BLM and ANTIFA taught me that property crime like package theft is harmless because “they have insurance.”

    And Amazon told me more than once that the company supports BLM. They put it right on their home page. I take that as a tacit endorsement of such tactics.

    Choke on it, Bezos. You have insurance.

  2. Clinton says:

    ”Criminal disorder damages society at multiple levels, and under the Democratic Party’s current ideological direction, things are only going to get worse.”

    As Lenin said, whilst he and his fellow communists were working to overthrow the Tsar, “the worse, the better”. If the left can so degrade the social fabric that a normal life becomes unsafe and uncertain, then many people will turn to someone who seems to offer stability. I suspect the loons and ideologues running the Democrat Party today push their “worse” on us hoping we’ll eventually submit to their otherwise unacceptable “better”.

  3. arminius says:

    They don’t have to pry open the Amazon Lockers at all. They just have to stand there and wait for you to open yours

    What, you don’t think anyone’s going to enforce a “loitering” charge here do you? Ha ha ha ha ha

  4. Scotay says:

    Hypocrisy, Stupidity and Denial come into mind when I see the LEFT-WINGERS explain “justifiable crime” and then reality hits when it happens to them and thus, they cry, complain, move to conservative towns and sometimes even run to the basement like Biden and Trudeau when peaceful protests occur.

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